another nasty farcility

In my current duties as chauffeur for Mr Wafflycat, I did Cambridge & back
yesterday. Coming out of town towards the A14, driving along the Newmarket
Road to the RAB with Wadloes Road, is this horror of a farcility.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=caridge&countryCode=GB#map=52.21234,0.1626|20| 256&be=4260001|North&loc=GB:52.20273:0.13072:14|ca mbridge|Cambridge,%20Cambridgeshire,%20England,%20 CB1%201

or

http://tinyurl.com/3zq2u2

The farcility gets cycle lanes/general road lanes crossing again, where a
cyclist wanting to go straight on is placed in what appears to be direct
conflict of motorised transport wanting to turn left. I didn't like it as a
motorist and I would not be happy on it as a cyclist.

What's the experience of urc Cambridge cyclists on this one?

wafflycat wrote:
In my current duties as chauffeur for Mr Wafflycat, I did Cambridge &
back yesterday. Coming out of town towards the A14, driving along the
Newmarket Road to the RAB with Wadloes Road, is this horror of a farcility.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=caridge&countryCode=GB#map=52.21234,0.1626|20| 256&be=4260001|North&loc=GB:52.20273:0.13072:14|ca mbridge|Cambridge,%20Cambridgeshire,%20England,%20 CB1%201

http://tinyurl.com/3zq2u2

Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Peter Clinch wrote:
Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
I get Cambridge

--
Peter (Prof) Fox

"Peter Clinch" wrote in message
...
wafflycat wrote:
In my current duties as chauffeur for Mr Wafflycat, I did Cambridge &
back yesterday. Coming out of town towards the A14, driving along the
Newmarket Road to the RAB with Wadloes Road, is this horror of a
farcility.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=caridge&countryCode=GB#map=52.21234,0.1626|20| 256&be=4260001|North&loc=GB:52.20273:0.13072:14|ca mbridge|Cambridge,%20Cambridgeshire,%20England,%20 CB1%201

http://tinyurl.com/3zq2u2

Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.

I get Cambridge.

Peter Fox wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:
Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
I get Cambridge

Hey ho. I tried them both and landed in the same place, some
glitch-ette in FF3 perhaps? shrug

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

On 19/09/2008 09:56, wafflycat said,

http://tinyurl.com/3zq2u2

The farcility gets cycle lanes/general road lanes crossing again, where
a cyclist wanting to go straight on is placed in what appears to be
direct conflict of motorised transport wanting to turn left. I didn't
like it as a motorist and I would not be happy on it as a cyclist.

I'm not in Cambridge, but it looks like a cyclist intending to go
straight on is meant to use the cycle lane that runs between the
left-turn lane and the right hand lane. Which means they have to cross
the left-turning traffic further back. Personally, I would use the
normal road lanes and hold that "facility" up as an example of why the
use of cycle lanes must not be made compulsory. A cyclist would have to
use the road anyway if they're turning left because there's a bloody
great bus parked in the way :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Peter Clinch wrote:
Peter Fox wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:
Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
I get Cambridge

Hey ho. I tried them both and landed in the same place, some
glitch-ette in FF3 perhaps? shrug

Hmmm, worked fine in Konquerer. Odd.

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Peter Clinch wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:
Peter Fox wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:
Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
I get Cambridge
Hey ho. I tried them both and landed in the same place, some
glitch-ette in FF3 perhaps? shrug

Hmmm, worked fine in Konquerer. Odd.

Pete.

Works fine on FF3.01 for me.
Roger Thorpe

Peter Clinch wrote:
Peter Fox wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:
Errr, that's on the M4 west of Reading when I follow the links...

Pete.
I get Cambridge

Hey ho. I tried them both and landed in the same place, some
glitch-ette in FF3 perhaps? shrug

It works fine for me in FF3 on a Mac.

Colin

On Sep 19, 9:56*am, "wafflycat"
wrote:
In my current duties as chauffeur for Mr Wafflycat, I did Cambridge & back
yesterday. Coming out of town towards the A14, driving along the Newmarket
Road to the RAB with Wadloes Road, is this horror of a farcility.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=caridge&countryCode=GB#map=52.21234,...20|256& be=4260001|North&loc=GB:52.20273:0.13072:14|cambri dge|Cambridge,%20Cambridgeshire,%20England,%20CB1% 201

or

http://tinyurl.com/3zq2u2

The farcility gets cycle lanes/general road lanes crossing again, where a
cyclist wanting to go straight on is placed in what appears to be direct
conflict of motorised transport wanting to turn left. I didn't like it as a
motorist and I would not be happy on it as a cyclist.

What's the experience of urc Cambridge cyclists on this one?

Not being a Cambridge cyclist I can't give a direct response but if I
look closely I can see that traffic proceeding ahead from West to East
is supposed to use the outside lane whilst traffic turning North is
restricted to the nearside lane. If cycles proceeding East were using
an ordinary cycle lane without a secondary positioning 'filter' lane
they would still need to cross the traffic turning North to position
themselves to move ahead. Staying in the nearside lane would place
them in conflict with traffic turning North. The marking of the lane
draws attention to a manoeuvre which a cyclist would have to make in
any case so could act as a warning to the predictively challenged.

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